A Foundation for Energy Efficiency Projects
Key Features
- Turnkey solution includes all components to get started quickly
- Real-time monitoring of consumption at any level
- Details by floor, room, circuit, appliance, utility
- Electricity, gas, steam, water sub-metering available
- Trend analysis and historical comparatives
- Energy Diagnostics: pre-formatted reports, ready to use
- Automatic alerts via email, text
- Budgeting and/ or "carbon diets" at any level
- Renewables performance tracking: solar, solar thermal, wind
- Automated interface to ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager
- BACnet Connector to import BAS data for consolidated picture
- Secure hosted service - no software to maintain
- Remote access to data, 24/7
- Mulitple display options: web, email, text, iPhone, iPpad, kiosk
- Modular design, easy to extend with additional sensors as needed
Real-Time Data to Manage Energy Consumption
Understanding when and where energy is being consumed throughout your building can have a significant payback. With Agilewaves, you can capture, store, and analyze energy consumption to uncover ways to mitigate unnecessary energy costs.
Major Load Profiling
Most customers start by monitoring major energy consuming systems - HVAC for cooling and heating, and lighting zones - indoor and perimeter. Agilewaves can help determine where you're using the most energy, and also help you define time-of-day usage patterns.
With Major Load profiling, you can uncover the "low hanging fruit" - such as unnecessay lighting after hours or on weekends. One customer even discovered that his perimeter lighting was on during the day!
Building Sub-Metering
Adding circuit measurements provides the ability to drill down into energy loads. This is key to identifying specific areas – floors, lighting zones, classrooms, computer rooms - which may be consuming excessive amounts of energy, and racking up demand charges or time-of-day premiums.
Agilewaves Energy Diagnostic reports provide trends so you can uncover simple fixes such as delaying building warm-up/shutdown schedules to reflect occupant patterns, switching functions to off-peak hours or adjusting the temperature of an air-conditioning system. Any of these measures can quickly add up to significant savings – without significant capital investments.
Tools to allocate costs by building areas will help you to engage business managers in saving energy too. Top Consumer reports, setting budgets or carbon diets and scoreboard displays in lobbies or on websites can help shape occupant behavior for additional savings.
End-Use Metering
To understand a building's overall energy profile, it may make sense to monitor individual pieces of equipment, including chillers, pumps, air handlers, and other HVAC-system components. Or, use our plug-load monitors to track individual appliances and office equipment.
For example - air handling units can get stuck in a mode where they're heating and cooling simultaneously. Agilewaves sensors can spot the excessive cycling, allowing you to take immediate corrective action which would to reduce energy waste, sometimes dramatically.
By identifying what's actually occurring day-by-day, piece of equipment by piece of equipment, you are likely to get an immediate “quick fix” payback by uncovering operational anomalies.
Measure What You Need to Manage
Agilewaves has the flexibility to mix metering levels in a building, campus or portfolio. We have a modular system - by design - so that you’re only investing in sub-metering when and where it’s justified.
In fact, our clients often start with Major Load profiling to uncover operational variances that can be corrected, then later add circuit metering for key areas or systems. With Agilewaves, you can easily add new sensors and gateways to build out your system at a pace that’s justified.
Your Agilewaves deployment can also “plug-and-play” with other systems:
- Export data to other systems via standard .csv format
- Import data from Building Automation Systems
- Import data from existing submeters.
Ask us about our BACnet Connector and other integrations.
Agilewaves System Overview
